Improvement in studs or clasps for fastening gloves



W. H. DOUGLAS. Studs or Clasps for Fastening Gloves, &0.

No."19 6,2 00. Patnted Oct. 16, I877.

WITNESSES U ITED STATES ATENT CFFIOE.

WILLIAM HENRY DOUGLAS, OF STOURBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN STU DS ORCLASPS FOR FASTENING GLOVES, 84.0.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,200, dated October16, 1877; application filed May 24, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM HENRY DOUG- LAS, of Stourbridge, in thecormty of Worcester and Kingdom of England, jeweler, a sub ject underthe Queen of Great Britain, have iDXGlltGd. new and useful Improvementsin Studs or Clasps, which improvements are fully set forth in thefollowing specification.

This invention consists of improvements in those studs or clasps whichare formed by a face and backplate connected by one linkplate, andgoverned or kept in place by a sprmg.

My invention is more particularly adapted I to the fastening of gloves.

Figure 1 illustrates, in various views, the form of clasp adapted togloves having a button and button-hole. Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate theclasp as adapted to gloves without a button, and with or without abutton-hole.

A and B, Fig. 1, represent front and side views of the clasps, and O andD show views of the front plate. E represents the link-plate of the oneclasp, pierced with a slot, a, as shown by the under-side view E, theslot to being made to catch onto the neck of the glovebutton, thussecuring that portion of the clasp to the one side of'the glove. Frepresents the other part of the clasp, having a link-plate, I),

through which is a hole, 0, so that, by passing the plate D through aband or bridge, d, on the clasp F, 'the nut 0 falls into the hole 0, andis held there by the spring, as shown at B, Fig. 1. These clasps may befurther secured by forming a lip, f at the end of the link-plate, asshown by (l and H, Fig. 2, which will catch upon the back of the clasp,as shownat G,

Fig. 2.

For gloves without a button, I employ as an attaclnnent to the glove abrooch-pin, which may be attached either to the one plate only, or toboth plates, as shown at G and H, Fig. 2; or clasps or studs may beattached to the glove by both portions being made with a necking andback plate, as at K, L, and M, Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The plate E, having spring and nut c on its under side, in combinationwith the part F, having the link-plate 1), hole 0, and band or bridge(I, substantially as described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 3d day of May,1877.

, WILLIAM HENRY DOUGLAS.

Witnesses:

Ti-ros. A. TURNER, HENRY T. TALBOT.

